Reviews
Jesus Ñ Voltará
Originally released in 2023, this is a new deluxe version to take advantage of the attention it has garnered since...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: November/2024
Seven
French blues guitarist and singer Tia Gouttebel teams with Gilles Chabenat (vielle à roue, aka hurdy-gurdy) and Fabrice Bony (percussion)...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2024
Out in La La Land
Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/2024
Bird Tunes
This newly composed instrumental suite from fiddle player and composer Rutter is a work of melodic charm, entirely inspired by...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2024
Keyeyî
Ali Doğan Gönültaş is the rising star of Kurdish music in Turkey. This album is just him solo, his emotional...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/2024
Tales of Orisas
The Nigerian-born jazz percussionist Lekan Babalola and British clarinettist Kate Luxmoore formed the Sacred Funk Quartet ‘following a commission by...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2024
Deep Sea Vents
Deep Sea Vents is a self-consciously quirky, sometimes witty and occasionally beguiling ten-track album of songs by Bruce Hornsby in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024
Nasim-e Sahar
Bahareh Fayazi & Asareh Shekarchi
Nasim-e Sahar, featuring the duo of Bahareh Fayazi on tar and Asareh Shekarchi on tombak and avaz (Iranian classical singing),...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2024
BRSB
Bacao pan out of Hamburg, lending a Caribbean touch to rap hits, although some of these covers are somewhat mainstream...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2024
